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<span style="font-size: smaller">The new Filhos De Ogum faction battles it out against the U.F.E. in the all-new Favela Heights map from the Hostage Negotiation DLC Pack for Max Payne 3 Multiplayer.</span>

Coming this fall, the Hostage Negotiation Map Pack DLC for Max Payne 3[www.rockstargames.com] will bring four new multiplayer maps into the fold - all specially designed for online action - along with a range of new Items and weapons plus the Filhos De Ogum avatar faction.

<span style="font-size: smaller">Protect yourself from explosive damage with the new Bomb Suit.</span>

The Club Moderno and Est&aacute;dio Do Galatians maps are being designed to deliver intense nightclub and stadium shootouts reminiscent of Max&#39;s earlier dust-ups with some of S&atilde;o Paulo&#39;s most dangerous elements like the Comando Sombra[www.rockstargames.com] and the Crach&aacute; Preto[www.rockstargames.com].

Meanwhile, the O Pal&aacute;cio Strip Club and Favela Heights maps introduce to multiplayer all new, highly detailed favela territories from Max&#39;s descent into the gang-infested neighborhoods of the city.

<span style="font-size: smaller">Slow down your opponents&#39; reload time with the new Intimidation Mask item.</span>

The Hostage Negotiation Pack will also include two new weapons: the M24 Sniper Rifle and the&nbsp;IA2 Assault Rifle, the new Explosive Burst for explosive booby traps, the Bomb Suit item to protect against explosive damage and the Intimidation Mask item to cause slower reload times for your enemies.

The pack will be available later this fall for 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE or $9.99 on PlayStation Network and PC (Rockstar Pass owners of course will receive it, and all other future packs, free of charge).

Our apologies to Max Payne fans who&#39;ve been waiting for this one and the other upcoming packs - we&#39;re working hard to bring you this and all the other DLC and should have a release date to announce for this next pack very soon. As a special thank you to all Max Payne 3 multiplayers for your support and patience, look for the release of an all-new chrome weapons bonus, which will be redeemable by all Social Club members free of charge. We&#39;ll have more info when the unlock becomes active later this week.

It&#39;s time to tell your loudmouthed friends and crew mates to quit their wild braggadocio, because this week we&#39;ve got a great new tool on Social Club to ensure a quick and indisputable end to any and all Max Payne 3[www.rockstargames.com] verbal one-upmanship from those who can&#39;t back it up. The Friend Compare system is available now at the Max Payne 3 section of the Social Club[socialclub.rockstargames.com] so you can investigate how you size up against your nearest and dearest, in a wide range of stats across both Single Player[socialclub.rockstargames.com] and Multiplayer[socialclub.rockstargames.com].&nbsp;

Convinced that you rep the G6 Commando the hardest or always Bring The Payne when playing as Max or Passos in Payne Killer? Want to know for sure that you have the best Consecutive Hit Streak on Chapter IV of Story mode? Now prove it by lining up against up to five of your friends and Crewmates at a time and really finding out who&#39;s the boss (it is worth mentioning that you can only see the stats of those friend who have the appropriate privacy settings).

To access this useful tool just head over to the Max Payne 3 area of the Social Club and hit the Friend Compare button on the right hand side of the navigation bar in either Single Player or in Multiplayer. From here, you can scroll through your friends list, and any of your Crews&#39; rosters to select those players you want to check your stats against, and find out where you need to pick up the pace.

Keep an eye out on Social Club for more new features in the coming weeks.

We're playing original GTAIV multiplayer[www.rockstargames.com] for the next hour. Add GwRockstar4 on PC, and while we know you guys are PC gamers we also want to offer up this info if you have any friends or family on consoles: PlayRockstar is playing on PS3 and GwRockstar3 is on Xbox 360.

Enjoy Triple XP points all weekend in Max Payne 3 multiplayer[www.rockstargames.com] and join in for the next 2-3 hours for the multiplayer event!

Join the action, including a live stream, chat and prize giveaway, and look for us on PC in the Social Club Multiplayer Event multiplayer playlist. You can also enter to win one of three prize packs[rsg.ms], each featuring the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti graphics card.

Lastly, we're also on Twitch[www.twitch.tv] on PC if you want a third video stream to watch!

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